by democraticleadernancypelosi. thensenators of both parties on their leadership elections. later republican senators john mccain, nancy gramm, and others call for the investigation on the attacks of the u.s. consulate in libya. the senate armed services committee holds a hearing tomorrow morning on the nomination of marine corps general joseph dunford. that is live on c-span 3 at 9:30 eastern. general dunford is assistant commandant of the marine corps. now house speaker john gainer on his party's leadership election and the agenda for the lame duck session of congress. top priority which is jobs. i'm proud of my leadership caucus who are going to serve. and while some of us who are returning to the leadership, we have new members and you will get to hear from them in a moment. our majority is the primary line of defense for the american people against a government that spends too much, borrows too much when left unchecked. i have outlined a framework for how both parties can work together to avert the fiscal cliff without raising tax rates and through a combination of pro-growth tax reform

will have speaker boehnershortly.nancypelosiannouncedthat she plans to stay on as the leader of the house democrats and made the announcement at a press briefing and said, quote, i wouldn't think of walking away. we will watch that now while waiting for speaker boehner. >> i think that means most of them are here. good morning. more are coming. more are coming. yesterday, when we gathered here, i began my comments standing here with our new members of congress by saying a picture is worth 1,000 words. that's what they say. i said then and i say now that this picture before you is worth millions of votes. millions of votes. [cheers and applause] >> millions of women's votes that it took to re-elect president obama. millions of women's votes who help us elect a number of women to the congress of the united states. as you look forward, understand that you are looking into the future. the future of empowerment of women in america. you saw some of these faces yesterday among the new members-elect. i said then that they were part of the most diverse caucus in the history of the wor

to get you to commentonnancypelosiproposeddecision to remain in congress and remained in her leadership role. guest: i am an enormous fan of the policy. she is an historic leader because she is one of the most productive that this nation has ever seen them back into pelosi is a legislation passed bashing machine. barack obama is a great president and was indispensable in getting the health care bill through. their real hero of that was

on everybody wanted to. dna majorityofnancypelosiandharry reid to do it. he did not do it. -- he had a majority. it is time for the president to get serious and provide some leadership. he wanted to be president for four more years. is presided over the worst economy since the great depression. massive exploding deficits. a debt ceiling coming very quickly. this is the time for you to step up to the plate, mr. president. it is time to step up. where have you been? welcome to four years of failed economic policies. we will see if you will present anything different. >> every one of us on this panel will not be her if we did not have a clear mandate from our constituents to reduce the tax and regulatory burdens that are crushing the life of the american economy. >> that is what i was like to say. to answer your question the way you asked it, he is a mandate to talk about it, and we have a mandate to fight it. . and i think that is what the american people elected us to do. we will continue to fight it and a fight any member of our conference that decides this is a good time to raise ta

? >> if the president had amandate,nancypelosiwouldbe the speaker of the house. >> the same question i put to gene sperling. how confident are you as these first face-to-face negotiations began, there will be a deal that you and your colleagues can support? >> very confident. there is an opportunity the president has to lead the country in a way that he wanted to back in 2008. there is a benefit to limited government. the president did not have it in 2009 when there was an expectation. listen, this move forward with the agenda. now, there is a restraining influence. i think there is an obscenity for both of these men, the state senate, their dispositions to come up with a remedy to get it done. >> would be better if it was just the two of them? >> are you stringing me out? >> well, they both have temperaments that can get to yes and that is a good thing in leaders. >> thank you for joining us. >> great, thank you. one of the players in these negotiations. thank you for that republican perspective. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite